When I was using Caldera Openlinux 3.1 there was an update tool.. that
automatically looked for applications to add to the menu... can anyone
help


On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 21:45, Dennis Myers wrote:
> On Friday 04 January 2002 22:29, you wrote:
> > Why doesn't the menu update itself when new programs are added or have
> > the update file that looks for programs to add to the menu?
> Don't have an answer but it doesn't hurt to on occasion after adding programs 
> packages or whatever to go to a single user mode and from the command prompt 
> as root:  type in :   "rpm -rebuilddb "  then when it returns to a commant 
> prompt type in: "update-menus  -v"  the -v for verbose so you can see the 
> progress of the menu update.  Thus if a package is installed and it is set up 
> to automatically put an icon on the desktop or a button on the taskbare etc 
> the new dodad should appear.  Otherwise you will have to go looking for the 
> icon as a .png or something like that.  HTH
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> Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
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